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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Navigation and Trade of this place is of late which in a great measure is owing to the currency of bills of credit … state of this affair, that H.M. may be sensible of the great wrong Mr. Attorney and Mr. Sollicitor have done us upon … particularly to find out a way of communication betwixt ye Great Rivers of Quebec and Mississippi. Having effected this …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… be tempted to enter into the Spanish service, from whence great detriment might ensue to the trade of these Kingdoms. … sake cannot take an oath, being the same with that used in Great Brittain. True it is, an Act of the same nature, with … England, by the increase of Trade, and Navigation, in the great number of shipping they employ, and the vast quantities …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… several ships and vessells, and fitt them out, at a very great expence to our Province to remove them, and went … William Gerrish Esqr., Daniell Ravell Esqr. being all in Great Brittain, the first by leave of H.M., the second has … Thomas Esqr. who I am informed died in September last in Great Brittain, William Byam Esqr. Edward Warner Esqr. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… against the arts of an industrious party when they have so great a point to carry. But however this Party of men may … agt. trying him by vertue of the Commission under the great Seal pursuant to the Act of the 11th and 12th of King … that should give or ask quarter, and then discharged his great guns loaded with partridge shott, wch. killed and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… as if they sacrificed all the dearest interests of Great Britain to their connections with France, which was … of the Island of St. Christopher which had been ceded to Great Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht. I begged H.R.H. to … and about four score who made their escape with Vane the great Pirate etc. v. 31st Oct., 1718. The pyrates before ye …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… lay before H.M. with our humble opinion, that it is of great importance to H.M. service that the usual presents to … belonging to the colony. He has got the words added, or of Great Britain. The act prohibiting trade with the French in … and Plantations. The severity of last winter occasioned great success in destroying of swayles insomuch that in our …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… skins was laid when the value of 20 s. per skin. The great importation thereof has reduced it to 4/6 per skin, so … practice introduced a few years since, of carrying very great quantities of beaver-skins from New York, or other … and obliges him to keep troops upon the frontiers, to the great expence of the province. These proceedings of the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… your Lordship and your Uncle the Post Master General are great promoters thereof. My Lord give me leave to say that … your Lordship which may tend very much to the interest of Great Britain and of this Province etc. Nothing shall be … front[i]ers and if possible in townships which will be a great strengthning to this country and twill make the land …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… income, which I presume your Lordship will not think too great a reward for his services, nor too large a recompence … no Governour of the Leeward Islands has lived to return to Great Britain for 33 years past, Mr. Doughty excepted etc. … who is a Pattent Officer, and have urged to me, how great a hardship it would be to make out the proceedings, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to maintain the character H.M., by your Lordship's great favour to me, has honoured me with; all the necessarys … take place till H.M. further pleasure was known; but to my great surprise was rejected by the Council by a majority of … second Assembly; the same reason subsisting as when in his great goodness he permitted me to take it from the first. The …